Analogue beats, Cuban protest, hazy hip-hop - tonight on The Brighton Beat
Analogue beats, Cuban protest, hazy hip-hop - tonight on The Brighton Beat
This week’s playlist on Radio Reverb
The Brighton Beat with John Keenan
📻97.2FM, DAB, radioreverb.com
5.00pm and 10.00pm Wednesday
10.00am Thursday
Tek-88 - Tenderlonius
As if Daft Punk never split! Paying homage to the seminal sound of the Roland TR-808, Ed Cawthorne, aka jazz flautist and DJ and producer Tenderlonius, melds stomach-pummelling bass lines, groovy flute harmonies and analogue beats on a track that will remind you of a time when packed sweaty dance floors were a thing.
Organic Rust - Alfa Mist
A taste of Alfa Mists’s forthcoming solo album, Organic Rust is a woozy soft-focus trip around the tropes that the Newham-based musician has made his own. Featuring Jamie Leeming (guitar), Kaya Thomas-Dyke (bass and vocals), Jamie Houghton (drums) and Johnny Woodham (trumpet), the track is undemanding but undeniably infectious.
Patria y Vida - Gente de Zona, Yotuel
This Cuban protest song has seriously angered the authorities on the Caribbean island - to the point of arresting one of the collaborators. The track is performed by Spain-based Romero; Alexander Delgado and Randy Malcom, from the reggaeton duo Gente de Zona; singer-songwriter Descemer Bueno; and the rappers Maykel Castillo, known as Maykel Osorbo, and Eliécer Márquez, “el Funky,” who live in Cuba.
The high-profile of these artists has rattled the gerontocracy in Havana, whose spokesperson called the song “annexation vomit.” Whatever that means. It’s actually very good.